4TH POSITION
Sometimes we wish we could rewind time: to when we were younger, happier and free! When the cares of this world didn’t steal our joy and laughter from our face and soul!
We keep this love, this joy, and this happiness in a photograph, praying and hoping to the heavens that as we gaze at the photos… that tiny second that we were Frozen in Time, even if it’s just a flicker, we may find hope in it. Hope of that same love, joy and happiness.
And when it is that we need light and positivity, we rush back to that photo of when we were Frozen in Time!!!
The power of silence can be felt in the photograph – with a finger pointing at the child that is at the centre of attraction – laughing, totally carried away by his own world of innocence. The use of bokeh helps to give the subject sharpness as the background is blurred.
JUDGE
I’m an empath, so I can literally feel the joy in this child’s face.
JUDGE
Great tones and moment. I love the finger too!
I was in the air, halfway over the fence, and everything just stopped. My legs and arms stretched, breath caught – I wasn’t going forward or backward, just stuck there. For a second, it felt like the world pressed pause, like even the wind was holding me up. The ground below waited, the sky above stretched wide, but I stayed right in between, suspended. It was strange, almost unreal, as if I could live forever in that little gap between the jump and the landing. No rush, no fall, just that sharp stillness that made me feel untouchable. In that moment, I wasn’t climbing, I wasn’t falling – I was FROZEN IN TIME!!!
Given the choice between the colour and B&W versions of this photo,
JUDGE
I much prefer this one.
Joseph Adonis
Joseph Adonis is a poet from Edo state Nigeria and a graduate of Lagos State University of Science and Technology. He believes Art (in whatever form) is the Print and Elixir to this world, and he is a major footprint maker!
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